The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron

by Ross E Lockhart (Editor), Justin Steele (Editor)

Overview

There are Things - terrifying Things - whispered of in darkened forests beyond the safe comfort of firelight: The Black Guide, the Broken Ouroboros, the Pageant, Belphegor, Old Leech... These Things have always been here. They predate you. They will outlast you. This book pays tribute to those Things. For We are the Children of Old Leech... and we love you.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939905079
Publisher:	Word Horde
Publication date:	12/15/2014
Pages:	344
Sales rank:	536,730
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.77(d)

Editorial Reviews

05/19/2014
Lockhart and Steele collect 17 original stories from some of the shining stars of modern horror, constructing a worm-riddled literary playground from elements of the fiction of horror maestro Laird Barron. The results come across with a coherent feeling of dread, without feeling derivative of the source. The Broken Ouroboros comes up in an academic study of a rural cult in Molly Tanzer’s “Good Lord, Show Me the Way.” The worms crawl in as tiny silkworms in J.T. Glover and Jesse Bullington’s “Pale Apostle.” Old Leech appears in the context of a hippie revival retreat in T.E. Grau’s “Love Songs from the Hydrogen Jukebox.” In Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.’s “The Last Crossroads on a Calendar of Yesterdays,” The pages of the Black Guide become material for a golem built by a Jewish man driven insane from a childhood witnessing Nazi magic. A doppelganger of Barron himself features in a wonderfully creepy introduction by Steele. Hopefully Barron will enjoy this tribute; his fans certainly will. (July)

Publishers Weekly